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!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky
please join me in the fight to save our libraries.
EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.
please join me in the fight to save our libraries.
EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.
April 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky
please join me in the fight to save our libraries.
EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.
please join me in the fight to save our libraries.
EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.
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Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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“For the master’s tool will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. This fact is only threatening to those (women) who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.”
March 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
“For the master’s tool will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. This fact is only threatening to those (women) who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.”
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Good riddance
A) There shouldnt be corporations at Pride marches anyway
B) They’re telling you their support was always conditional to begin with
C) Rainbow capitalism will not save you
Remember their names and if you choose, never support them again the same way many are already doing with Target
A) There shouldnt be corporations at Pride marches anyway
B) They’re telling you their support was always conditional to begin with
C) Rainbow capitalism will not save you
Remember their names and if you choose, never support them again the same way many are already doing with Target
Five major corporate donors decided not to sponsor this year’s San Francisco Pride March amid President Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans mandates.
San Francisco Pride March Loses $300K in Sponsorships
It’s not the only organization taking a hit as Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans policies continue to reverberate through the arts and culture sector.
hyperallergic.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Good riddance
A) There shouldnt be corporations at Pride marches anyway
B) They’re telling you their support was always conditional to begin with
C) Rainbow capitalism will not save you
Remember their names and if you choose, never support them again the same way many are already doing with Target
A) There shouldnt be corporations at Pride marches anyway
B) They’re telling you their support was always conditional to begin with
C) Rainbow capitalism will not save you
Remember their names and if you choose, never support them again the same way many are already doing with Target
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1. The far right is falsely spreading that a new study shows that surgery "doubles depression" for transgender people.
This is an egregious misreading of the study, which does not look at transgender people before and after surgery.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Lets dig in.
This is an egregious misreading of the study, which does not look at transgender people before and after surgery.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Lets dig in.
Debunked: No, New Study Does Not Show Transgender Surgeries Double Depression
The study, which has been paraded around right-wing media sources, does not evaluate the impact of surgery on transgender depression rates.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
1. The far right is falsely spreading that a new study shows that surgery "doubles depression" for transgender people.
This is an egregious misreading of the study, which does not look at transgender people before and after surgery.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Lets dig in.
This is an egregious misreading of the study, which does not look at transgender people before and after surgery.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Lets dig in.
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Over 2,000 webpages containing LGBTQ+ information have been removed from federal government websites.
February 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Over 2,000 webpages containing LGBTQ+ information have been removed from federal government websites.
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"Stop romanticizing toxic tropes in fiction"
Bro literally never heard of 'Romanticism' (1790 - c. 1850) and how it's a deliberate rejection of order, harmony, balance, and rationality and celebrates the irrational, personal, emotional, weird, occult, and monstrous by design, how embarrassing 😞
Bro literally never heard of 'Romanticism' (1790 - c. 1850) and how it's a deliberate rejection of order, harmony, balance, and rationality and celebrates the irrational, personal, emotional, weird, occult, and monstrous by design, how embarrassing 😞
February 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Stop romanticizing toxic tropes in fiction"
Bro literally never heard of 'Romanticism' (1790 - c. 1850) and how it's a deliberate rejection of order, harmony, balance, and rationality and celebrates the irrational, personal, emotional, weird, occult, and monstrous by design, how embarrassing 😞
Bro literally never heard of 'Romanticism' (1790 - c. 1850) and how it's a deliberate rejection of order, harmony, balance, and rationality and celebrates the irrational, personal, emotional, weird, occult, and monstrous by design, how embarrassing 😞
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I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history.
How fucking dare they
Old vs. new
How fucking dare they
Old vs. new
February 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history.
How fucking dare they
Old vs. new
How fucking dare they
Old vs. new
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Fantasies inside your own head are morally neutral. Sex between consenting parties is morally neutral. Even and especially the gross, weird, freaky stuff. There is not a moral hierarchy to sexual fantasies.
February 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Fantasies inside your own head are morally neutral. Sex between consenting parties is morally neutral. Even and especially the gross, weird, freaky stuff. There is not a moral hierarchy to sexual fantasies.
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Okay, so joy as resistance has been completely removed from its original context, and that’s why what you know of now doesn’t really work.
In the Roaring 20s, during the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston found herself at odds not only with conservative whites but also neo-abolitionists
In the Roaring 20s, during the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston found herself at odds not only with conservative whites but also neo-abolitionists
February 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Okay, so joy as resistance has been completely removed from its original context, and that’s why what you know of now doesn’t really work.
In the Roaring 20s, during the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston found herself at odds not only with conservative whites but also neo-abolitionists
In the Roaring 20s, during the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston found herself at odds not only with conservative whites but also neo-abolitionists
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have cut off funding for half of the health centers that serve 400,000 Virginians, forcing some to close, which could mean up to 200,000 Virginians are suddenly without healthcare
www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
Virginia community health centers close over federal funding access
Despite pause on federal funding freeze, centers unable to access grants
www.vpm.org
February 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have cut off funding for half of the health centers that serve 400,000 Virginians, forcing some to close, which could mean up to 200,000 Virginians are suddenly without healthcare
www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
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Yes folks please process that what’s happening right now is that Mr Nazi Salute has access to the personal information of every Jew in America, along with every person who gets/has gotten disability benefits, and so on
The Holocaust was an administrative process that included lists of targets
The Holocaust was an administrative process that included lists of targets
I just called my House Rep and was told by his staff that he’s being briefed and I said we need to hear a clear plan from the democrats about how they’re going to protect our us and democracy from an unelected open Nazi who has access to the personal information of Jews and civil servants
Everyone please call you Congress offices this morning and ask them why this has been allowed - make noise
February 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Yes folks please process that what’s happening right now is that Mr Nazi Salute has access to the personal information of every Jew in America, along with every person who gets/has gotten disability benefits, and so on
The Holocaust was an administrative process that included lists of targets
The Holocaust was an administrative process that included lists of targets
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No new food or drug recalls today but I didn’t realize until today that a congressman introduced a bill last month to try and abolish OSHA
drrubin.substack.com/p/fda-recall...
drrubin.substack.com/p/fda-recall...
FDA Recall/Drug Shortage Roundup (2/3/2025) - Also a bill was introduced to the House to try and abolish OSHA (1/3/25)
We are on day 13 of the external communications pause from the FDA. What has been recalled? What drug shortages have been announced?
drrubin.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
No new food or drug recalls today but I didn’t realize until today that a congressman introduced a bill last month to try and abolish OSHA
drrubin.substack.com/p/fda-recall...
drrubin.substack.com/p/fda-recall...
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Chaos at the CDC continues (2/3/25)
The crusade against diversity needs to end
drrubin.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.
January 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.
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Costco - the only company to publicly come out in support of Diversity initiatives despite pressure from the GOP and they just raised the pay for their workers. Stop shopping at Target.
Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30
Retailer Costco Wholesale will increase pay for most of its hourly U.S. store workers to more than $30, according to a memo sent to employees this week.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Costco - the only company to publicly come out in support of Diversity initiatives despite pressure from the GOP and they just raised the pay for their workers. Stop shopping at Target.
Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...
Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...
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Even if you don't care about trans people, the president issuing an illegal executive order and hospitals in states with shield laws obeying in advance to suddenly cut off care to vulnerable youth is a chilling action. What do you think will happen to abortion when he invokes Comstock in an EO?
January 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Even if you don't care about trans people, the president issuing an illegal executive order and hospitals in states with shield laws obeying in advance to suddenly cut off care to vulnerable youth is a chilling action. What do you think will happen to abortion when he invokes Comstock in an EO?
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The way I can say the same thing about religion.
This isn't me being some edgy, anti religion person. Religion (well.... evangelicals in particular) has really truly fucked people up to the point where so many former evangelicals had to go to therapy FOR YEARS just to recover from the trauma.
This isn't me being some edgy, anti religion person. Religion (well.... evangelicals in particular) has really truly fucked people up to the point where so many former evangelicals had to go to therapy FOR YEARS just to recover from the trauma.
January 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The way I can say the same thing about religion.
This isn't me being some edgy, anti religion person. Religion (well.... evangelicals in particular) has really truly fucked people up to the point where so many former evangelicals had to go to therapy FOR YEARS just to recover from the trauma.
This isn't me being some edgy, anti religion person. Religion (well.... evangelicals in particular) has really truly fucked people up to the point where so many former evangelicals had to go to therapy FOR YEARS just to recover from the trauma.
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if you’re not trans & don’t know about the cass review, when this report comes out, it will look very much like the cass review. the NYT will treat it as legitimate.
i know this because they already did it with the cass review & said it should be the new model for america. tap the thread to learn.
i know this because they already did it with the cass review & said it should be the new model for america. tap the thread to learn.
January 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
if you’re not trans & don’t know about the cass review, when this report comes out, it will look very much like the cass review. the NYT will treat it as legitimate.
i know this because they already did it with the cass review & said it should be the new model for america. tap the thread to learn.
i know this because they already did it with the cass review & said it should be the new model for america. tap the thread to learn.
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Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
theonion.com/trump-c...
theonion.com/trump-c...
January 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
theonion.com/trump-c...
theonion.com/trump-c...
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This decision by @nbcnews.com to edit out Musk's clear fascist salute with a needless crowd scene is just craven, abject surrender.
Simply absolute ham-fisted "please don't believe your own eyes" stuff.
I never want to hear the phrase "liberal mainstream media" again. It is ... not that.
Simply absolute ham-fisted "please don't believe your own eyes" stuff.
I never want to hear the phrase "liberal mainstream media" again. It is ... not that.
Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed
January 21, 2025 at 5:54 AM
This decision by @nbcnews.com to edit out Musk's clear fascist salute with a needless crowd scene is just craven, abject surrender.
Simply absolute ham-fisted "please don't believe your own eyes" stuff.
I never want to hear the phrase "liberal mainstream media" again. It is ... not that.
Simply absolute ham-fisted "please don't believe your own eyes" stuff.
I never want to hear the phrase "liberal mainstream media" again. It is ... not that.
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Another funny thing about the modern queer puritan movement is that it doesn't JUST make you unable to explore fun freaky sex stuff, it poisons your ability to explore anything dark at all. 🧵
January 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Another funny thing about the modern queer puritan movement is that it doesn't JUST make you unable to explore fun freaky sex stuff, it poisons your ability to explore anything dark at all. 🧵
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Do not dunk. Do not quote-post. Do not screenshot and repost.
They wish to be visibly cruel because it makes them feel big and strong.
Block them with the most powerful block button we've had on social media to save yourself the energy, and save others from the garage being spread
They wish to be visibly cruel because it makes them feel big and strong.
Block them with the most powerful block button we've had on social media to save yourself the energy, and save others from the garage being spread
Just be prepared. We've all seen that headline going around today that Bluesky is the current #1 app, and X dropped out of the top 25.
That means the absolute worst people in the world are going to be coming here trying to turn THIS place into just as much of a shithole. Block them. Don't engage.
That means the absolute worst people in the world are going to be coming here trying to turn THIS place into just as much of a shithole. Block them. Don't engage.
November 14, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Do not dunk. Do not quote-post. Do not screenshot and repost.
They wish to be visibly cruel because it makes them feel big and strong.
Block them with the most powerful block button we've had on social media to save yourself the energy, and save others from the garage being spread
They wish to be visibly cruel because it makes them feel big and strong.
Block them with the most powerful block button we've had on social media to save yourself the energy, and save others from the garage being spread
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If you’re in a position to, please donate to the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund and Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
If you’re not in a position to, please read these tips from the ACLU.
Just don’t bend the knee to these craven shitheels.
www.aclu.org/news/civil-l...
If you’re not in a position to, please read these tips from the ACLU.
Just don’t bend the knee to these craven shitheels.
www.aclu.org/news/civil-l...
How to Take Action on Inauguration Day and Beyond | ACLU
Our civil liberties and civil rights are on the line. The ACLU’s guide helps to connect you with ways to advocate for our freedoms.
www.aclu.org
January 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If you’re in a position to, please donate to the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund and Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
If you’re not in a position to, please read these tips from the ACLU.
Just don’t bend the knee to these craven shitheels.
www.aclu.org/news/civil-l...
If you’re not in a position to, please read these tips from the ACLU.
Just don’t bend the knee to these craven shitheels.
www.aclu.org/news/civil-l...
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Vampire fiction always has a bit of incest just baked in
The "maker" and "sire" thing adds this weird murderer/mentor/teacher/parent/lover thing that's often directly addressed but sometimes NEVER addressed, and its just sorta... floating there... making a weird unsettling vibe
The "maker" and "sire" thing adds this weird murderer/mentor/teacher/parent/lover thing that's often directly addressed but sometimes NEVER addressed, and its just sorta... floating there... making a weird unsettling vibe
January 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Vampire fiction always has a bit of incest just baked in
The "maker" and "sire" thing adds this weird murderer/mentor/teacher/parent/lover thing that's often directly addressed but sometimes NEVER addressed, and its just sorta... floating there... making a weird unsettling vibe
The "maker" and "sire" thing adds this weird murderer/mentor/teacher/parent/lover thing that's often directly addressed but sometimes NEVER addressed, and its just sorta... floating there... making a weird unsettling vibe